Yet for most news outlets, the hearing was a disaster for the White House, as demonstrated by the brutal headlines on the front pages of so many local and national newspapers on Friday morning.

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Trump reportedly “dipped in and out of the small dining room off the Oval Office” to watch about 45 minutes of Comey’s testimony, along with his personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz. He insisted to his legal team, according to the New York Times, “I was right.”

The New York tabloids (including The New York Post, which Trump reportedly used to read first to start the day) are not always on the same page, but Friday morning they struck very similar notes about the testimony, even if the Post did include more of the Trump camp’s spin:

Mar-a-Lago’s local paper, the Palm Beach Post, did not deliver good news to the president’s favorite resort.

The divergent media realities that help foment the political schisms that prevent many Americans from being able to have even basic conversations about public policy or politics were on clear display if readers put down their newspapers and picked up their television remotes for some channel surfing. MSNBC watchers saw a different hearing than Fox News watchers because of the way the same video feeds were framed.

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A helpful graphic from the Washington Post tracked every single chyron displayed by the three cable news networks as they showed the live feed of Comey’s testimony.

At 12:33 p.m. for example, as the hearing was heading into the home stretch, here’s how the three channels showed at the bottoms of their screens:

COMEY: “I TAKE THE PRESIDENT’S WORDS, I KNOW I WAS FIRED BECAUSE OF SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY I WAS CONDUCTING THE RUSSIA PROBE”

COMEY: THE FBI HAD A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO CLINTON EMAIL MATTER

Scrolling through the three feeds gives a sense of how each channel played to different audiences, with Fox News’ chyrons regularly downplaying or ignoring damaging quotes or developments, and the other two networks conveying the proceedings with much more seriousness.

The next day, Trump’s favorite morning show, Fox & Friends, downplayed the damage Comey’s testimony did to the president and signaled they’re eager to move on from the story.

While Trump framed Comey’s testimony as a big win, there are indications that privately, at least, Republicans weren’t so sure. Conservative commentator Bill Kristol talked to congressional Republicans and said they are not just worried, but “terrified,” while Politico talked to several congressional Republicans who said they were “absolutely shocked at how poorly yesterday went for the president.”